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For Graham Rowntree to assert that England have been dragged out of the gutter
by Stuart Lancaster is a damning indictment of how far they had sunk at the
World Cup.

The remark, unintentionally perhaps, will make uncomfortable reading for
Martin Johnson, the former team manager who had Rowntree, a former
team-mate, in his coaching team.

“Stuart has dragged us out of the gutter,” Rowntree, the sole survivor of that
previous coaching regime, said. “We failed [at the World Cup] and the leaked
reports was messy. That was only a few weeks ago but we’ve come a long way.”